Earlier this year I flamed Dave Winer about Facebook. The gist of the post was that Dave was complaining about Facebook lock-in and rather than disagreeing with Dave on the issue I flamed Dave. It was a stupid thing to do and the kind of thing that contributes to the muck and the sludge that [...]
While the fatblogging concept seemed to work well for a number of folks in 2007, fatblogging did not work for me. More to the point, my attempt at weight loss and accountability via blogging took a turn for the worst in July when I “went off the grid”, stopped blogging about my weight, diet and [...]
After many years and over 1300 posts, Mike Gunderloy’s Daily Grind is coming to an end. His final post will be tomorrow. Mike has moved out of the world of Microsoft/.NET oriented development and into other technologies. He decided that Microsoft-related work was no longer for him and took 2007 to transition from Microsoft-related work. I wish [...]
Gizmodo offers a question of the day- Do you use your watch or your mobile phone to tell time? My answer is that I use my mobile phone. While I do wear a watch nearly every day (I wear an Oris), it is more like a piece of jewelry than it is a practical time piece. [...]
I’m a user of a paid subscription service for music (the Zune Marketplace), but when Napster was still new I tried P2P filesharing to sample new music. I still bought CD’s over the years and continue to buy a few from time to time even today. There is something that is still satisfying about having [...]
TechCrunch: “[S]ince SimpleDB operates at Web scale, larger companies will wake up to the cost saving opportunities of such a service as well… If speed is of the essence, you might still want to keep your database on your own servers. But the Web is where most software will one day live, whether consumer or [...]
“Knol”, a new service from Google, is designed to get people to “contribute knowledge” on various topics and is targeted as a destination for first-time searchers on various topics. Obviously inspired by Wikipedia, this appears to be a way for Google to take traffic from Wikipedia since so many Wikipedia pages appear in the top [...]
Good Morning Silicon Valley: “Of course, one can never underestimate the willingness of European courts to meddle with the model of a Web business, even if consumers get screwed in the process.”
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
Software Plus, a local St. Louis software reseller and former fixture as a computer software store in West St. Louis County, was acquired by Softchoice this week. Best of luck to those at Software Plus who are making the transition to the new company.
I’m finding the Feedburner service to be “stale” since it was acquired by Google. No new features and not much interesting stuff that I need so I’ve decided to delete my feed. You should be automatically redirected to http://randyh.wordpress.com/feed/. See you “there” from now on.
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